The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-26
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Steamship City of Montreal Pas
sengers and srew Fake to tife 1sosts
and all But One Party 1T Thirteen Res=
cved by a Passing vesse1-S.IS Missing
Thought - Tsavs Been Lost.
LONDON, Aug. 20.-ltis learned here that
the Inman Line steamer City Of Montreal
has beeI1 destroyed by fire at sea, and il is
feared that thirteen OF her passengers and
crew have been lost The Cits eff Montreal
sailed from New York August 6, boniia FOR
Liverpool She was. commanded by Captain
Land and had 400 passengers ON board
Tie news Was learned at Queenstown on
the arrival there yesterday fuorning of the
British steamer, York City, Captain Benin,
which left Baltimore August 4, for London.
this steamer performed the work Of rescue,
bringing passengers and crew TO Queens
town The destruction of the steamer oc-
CURED on the 18th instant, five days after
ahe left New York. A boat containing nine
passengers and four members of the crew is
missing
The passengers and crew Of the City of
Montreal We're taken off the York City by the
tug Mount Etna and landed at Queenstown
Al We're accounted for except the thirteen
persons in tbs missing boat 1t is learned
that shortly after tie passengers had gone
to bed on the night of August. 10, the ship
being in latitude 43 north at the time, they
We're aroused by an alarm of fire.
4 scAffe> of CONSERVATION ensued, and
the passengers were greatly ter
rifed when they found ont the. true
state of affairs. The smoke caused by the
fire was suffocating. The passengers
dressed and got on deck as quickly as posi-
BILE, and With little appearance. of panic
The fire originated iii the cotton stored in
the after main hold Nine STREAMS of water
were soon working on the fames and the
cotirs6 ST the vessel was shaped toward
Newfoundland, 400 miles distant. The
flames spread With great rapidity
and soon had burst out with terrific force
through the midway,and after matches, the
heat being intense. 1t becoming evident
that it Was impossible to save the ship
everyone became Reconstruction, and a
momentary panic ensued The boats were
lowered and passengers and crew got
into them. The boats soon scat,
tered, and one entirely vanished This con-
tanned two stewards, two seamen and nine
passengers, and there is but little doubt
that the whole boat-load persisted
The boat did not contain full crew and
left the City of Montreal against the caps
tain's orders, as there was time to take
many more in it The names OF those in the
missing boat are:
Passengers Samuel Kaufman, George Ar
mold and Samuel Mckee, intermediate; Kenard
Woolton, Stephen Topper, Simon RowtleY and
S. Kacheingka, steerage. Crew--Henry Frazer,
Charles Reade, William Franney, Patrick
Hughes (trimmer), Charles Smith Gnterpreter)
and Thomas Wilberforce (steward).
. A bark was sighted shortly after the boats
J left the steamer, and the crew were prepar-
ing to pick up,sthe survivors, when the
steamer York City, attracted by the flames
I from the burning vessel, which were shoot
ingf a hundred feet in the air, bore
down and with difficulty took ALI hands OH
board. The rescued people were treated
with the utmost kindness by the
captain and crew of the York City, and the
passengers speak with much. feeling of the
consideration;whieh was accorded to them.
The York City proceeded to London after
landing the City Of Montreaps passengers
and crew at Queenstown. The survivors
are unanimeus in declaring that the officers
and crewolf the City of Montreal did their
duty nobly and skillfully.
The captain of the bark Trabant under
took to cruise around after the York City
had left the scene of the burning. There is
therefore reason to hope that the missing
boat has been rescued s4:.:~s
Captain Land says heis sanguine that the
people in boat No. 8 are saved, as the acct
dent occurred on the track of steamers
bound east and west; The. passengers, he
adds, were cool and obedient during the
crisis and the crew were steady.
The origin of the fire, Captain Land says,
is unknown He is certain that it broke
out in more than one place among the cot
ton.
New YORK, Aug 2O.-The officials of the
Innan Line have no direct advices about
the City Of Montreal She left this city ON
the 9th. inst, and was four days overdue
from Liverpool. Considerable anxiety had
begun to be felt about her She had no first
cabin passengers, but carried 223 interme-
eiate and 115 steerage passengers.
The City of Montreal measured 432 feet
over ALL, A feet in nodded width of beam
and SO feet deep from spar deck to keel.
Her gross tonnage was 4,495 She was
built Ky Tobey.& Co., of Glasgow, in 1871,
was an iron screw steamer and had nine
bulk-heads, was equipped with compound
engines, s>haVing 600 horse power. The
steamer was worth about half million dol
lars The insurance is not known